A Snowy Tuesday Twist

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There  was snow in NYC  this morning!  Certainly not the amount of snow thats in  Buffalo or the Midwest,  but  we have been in  a snow drought here.  The snow was  welcome news for me.  I appreciated looking at it fall and cover the ground.


I think there is comfort in the first snowfall.  Perhaps it brings me back to some childhood memories when the weather was at least consistent.  As a child, I remember  thinking I can smell the snow coming.  I remembering thinking how white the night sky was.  I remember being excited and running to look at the window at the snow covered street.   If I was lucky they announced on the radio my school was closed.

( I also remember walking to school  in snowstorms...we were tough back then, we trudged to school wearing , a winter coat,  a plaid uniform jumper, plastic red snow boots. ( Did I mention  bare legs?)


Some of those memories came flooding back this early this morning.  I wasn’t going into Brooklyn today. (on a scheduled day out)  It occurred to me that often our childhood and  other years are trauma filled.  Memories can be painful and tear inducing.   Occasionally, just occasionally.  some comforting memories come through where we can  sit in gratitude  for them. 


So today I sit in gratitude for that dusting of snow we got here in NYC and memories of the snow that was so often magical for me.


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